e-gmat or GmatWhiz?

Question

Hey Guys,

I am looking for a good self study course with one-on-one mentorship and performance tracking. I heard that egmat is good for SC and other areas are just okay.

Not much information on GmatWhiz . Do you guys have any leads on this ? I have already given my gmat earlier, and I am planning to retake the exam in another 40 days and looking for a whooping 60 -70 point increase .

Any information on this would be much appreciated.

Thank you

Abhi077 · Answer

You can go through the reviews and see what fits best for you.

Reviews on gmatwhiz : https://gmatclub.com/reviews/gmatwhiz-345345722?fl=menu

Reviews on e-gmat : https://gmatclub.com/reviews/e-gmat-6?fl=menu

Good luck

vamshikaithi · Answer

Hi VishalSuria, I improved my Verbal score from 26 to 38 using GMATWhiz. In fact, I scored a 97 percentile on CR. Personally, I feel that GMATWhiz not only helps you with the concepts but also teaches you a lot of strategies. I emphasize on the strategies because I would often get confused between close answer choices and GMATWhiz solved that problem for me. And coming to mentorship, I was guided by Piyush who always kept in touch and helped me focus on the right areas. Hope you found this information helpful. All the best

prateekchugh · Answer

Hi...

I have used  @e-gmat  Verbal section. I can say that there verbal part is pretty good, especially sentence correction.

@CrackVerbalGMAT  for Verbal section is also a good option.

About Quant I would highly recommend  GMATPrepNow . I have used it and the explanation of every quant topic by   BrentGMATPrepNow   is awesome. Moreover,  BrentGMATPrepNow  question explanations in gmatclub are very simple and understandable.

I have not used GMATWhiz. Therefore, I can't tell.

Thanks
Prateek

homersimpsons · Answer

Egmat is agreat course for Verbal.
You should definitely go for Egmat

EMPOWERgmatRichC · Answer

Hi VishalSuria,

In another post, you noted that you had taken the Official GMAT twice before (a 650/Q45/V35 in January and a 620/Q45/V31 in September). Before you invest in any additional study materials, it would help if you could provide a bit more information on how you've been studying and your goals:

Studies:
1) How long did you study before each attempt? For your 2nd attempt, how many hours did you typically study each week?
2) What study materials have you used over the course of ALL of your studies? What "brands" of practice CATs/mocks have you used?
3) On what dates did you take EACH of your CATs/mocks and how did you score on EACH (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores for EACH)?

Goals:
4) What is your overall goal score?
5) When are you planning to apply to Business School and what Schools are you planning to apply to?

You also mentioned that you had ordered the Enhanced Score Report. While the ESR doesn’t provide a lot of information, there are usually a few data points that we can use to define what went wrong on Test Day (and what you should work on to score higher). Since you have your ESR, then I'll be happy to analyze it for you. Before you can include attachments with your posts/PMs, you need to have at least 5 posts in the forums (right now, you have just 2 posts). If you would rather not go through those extra steps at this point, then you can feel free to email me directly (at [email protected])

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

rvarora · Answer

I have used both e-GMAT and GMATWhiz courses in my past 18 month preparation and I guess I can shed some light on both of them. I used e-GMAT course for close to a year and scored a 680 with it. Then I subscribed to GMATWhiz and it helped me improve my score to 740.
In short, I felt that GMATWhiz is e-GMAT + the many more things that a student needs such as mentorship, an adaptive course, more focus on application/methodology and better forum support.

Detailed Analysis 
Let me now share my analysis in detail. First let’s start with the verbal section. While e-GMAT is famous for its verbal course, GMATWhiz has no doubt emerged as a strong competitor as I found it more balanced.
 In SC  both are at par, they equally emphasize on meaning-based approach and suggest proper technique to identify errors and explain grammatical rule equally well. However, if you’re a lover of nuances then this might intrigue you a bit - GMATWhiz provides you a tool of Checkpoints - a tool which can be of great help to people who are not accustomed to reading in a very absorbed manner.
 In CR  both GMATWhiz and e-GMAT have done great done job in one context that both suggest to deconstruct the argument first and then move on to the next step. However, here I would like to emphasize the difference in technique both of them suggest. 
e-GMAT guides you to a process wherein you ask yourself few questions by the time you arrive at a conclusion to figure out the assumptions. However, the approach takes a lot of time and toll on the mind to do the same on every CR question.
GMATWhiz on the other hand guides you to a process which is very common sensical – in that it has done a great job in identifying different TYPES of arguments that GMAT technically focus on and provides you a ready-made template which in turn enabled me to come with at least two assumptions in such questions before even reading the question stem.
This in turn saves time and improves accuracy.
 In RC , though much depends on practice, but both GMATWhiz and e-GMAT have given their fair attempt. Both suggest to read slowly and understand the flow of author, but still in inference part GMATWhiz – apart from teaching what to infer- also tells you cannot infer from statements in GMAT.

The Quant section 
I felt that e-GMAT has not given the fair share of diligence to its quant module. I’d rather suggest anyone to buy a 3-month quant subscription of GMATClub. Attempt tests – read solutions-learn from mistakes-implement. 
GMATWhiz takes a great leap ahead in Quant section. Its quant module apart from focusing on typical course (that is typical syllabus and types of questions), discusses the question errors – in which after every topic you get  a template  where we usually fall  for the traps . The instructor actually tells you where you will go wrong in this type of question – and I’d suggest if you buy this course please write down these errors and not even the formulas if you’re a bit occupied-.
Apart from this after every topic when you attempt questions the portal suggests your weak areas depending not only what type of question you erred in but also which option you chose.

I meant this to be short, but there’s one other major difference in both the prep firms.
I don’t know if it happened with majority or not but whenever I asked question or doubts on e-GMAT forum – every time they had a standard reply and more often than not I’d receive a reply stating that – I don’t remember the exact words but they’d say something like you cannot modify the question or answers or something like that.
But for me to understand where I went wrong it was necessary to know had it been the case otherwise – could I have been right- if yes then I know my approach is right but I took the question mistakenly which in turn strengthen my approach and reasoning and builds confidence. Fortunately, never have I encountered such a situation in GMATWhiz forum.

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